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Una vida robada

Autor: Jaycee Dugard

Número de Páginas: 320

Jaycee Dugard’s New York Times bestselling memoir chronicles her raw and powerful story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years—and offers an extraordinary account of courage and resilience. En el verano de 1991, yo era una niña normal. Hacía cosas normales. Tenía amigos y una madre que me amaba. Era como tú. Hasta el día en que me robaron la vida. Durante dieciocho años fui una prisionera. Era un objeto que alguien usaba y abusaba. Durante dieciocho años no me permitieron decir mi propio nombre. Me hice madre y fui forzada a ser una hermana. Durante dieciocho años sobreviví una situación imposible. El 26 de agosto de 2009 reclamé mi nombre. Me llamo Jaycee Lee Dugard. No me veo como una víctima. Sobreviví. Una vida robada es mi historia, en mis propias palabras, de mi propia manera, tal y como la recuerdo. La piña es un símbolo que representa la semilla de un comienzo nuevo para mí. Para ayudar a facilitar comienzos nuevos, con el apoyo de la terapia asistida por animales, la J A Y C Foundation brinda apoyo y servicios para el tratamiento oportuno de familias recuperándose de un secuestro y las secuelas que dejan esas...

Jenni Vive: Unforgettable Baby! (Bilingual Edition)

Autor: Jenni Rivera

Número de Páginas: 160

A moving collection of never-before-seen photos of Mexican singing sensation Jenni Rivera, including previously unpublished pages from her journal. This tribute represents a lasting legacy to a beloved entertainer, mother, and sister who died tragically in a plane crash in 2012. Excerpts from her journals allow glimpses into the real Jenni and provide insight into her inherent strength and her unwavering spirituality that kept her afloat even in the most trying times.

El Compa

Autor: Joel Silver Rodriguez

Número de Páginas: 158

The Wrong House

Autor: Esteban Burier

Número de Páginas: 170

“THE WRONG HOUSE” (Marielito; Exodus of Cubans in 1980) By Esteban Burier For all opponents of the Castro regime who went to comply with arbitrary sanctions; for those who were executed by the Castro regime; deprived of any defense, innocent of cases imposed by improvised courts; for those who were under the inclemency of the murderer Ernesto (Che) Guevara and so many other lap dogs of the dictator Fidel Castro; They are my deepest respect and admiration. They gave their lives with a shout of; Live Christ the King! Long live free Cuba! “THE WRONG HOUSE” Narrates the childhood of a boy that never thought twice to make a decision, committing many errors which took him, as consequence of punishment, to many juvenile reformatories and at last to jail, where he spent part of his life. The good education from his family did not influence on the boy, who does not divert from his delinquent path. A supernatural strength pushed him to these twisted paths to destroy and incarcerate him to where the stubborn are taken, to where you are subject to many tests and you can lose your dignity and also your manhood, depending on how weak or strong your personality is or if you allow to be...

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Entre las sombras del Sueño Americano

Autor: Julissa Arce

Número de Páginas: 304

'Qué aspecto tiene una inmigrante indocumentada? 'De qué tipo de familia proviene? 'Cómo consigue entrar a este país? 'Cuál es el verdadero precio que debe pagar para quedarse en los Estados Unidos? Julissa Arce sabe por experiencia propia que las respuestas más comunes y preconcebidas a esas preguntas son con frecuencia demasiado sencillas, y a veces totalmente erróneas.A primera vista, Arce ha alcanzado el sueño americano: al conseguir finalmente un empleo muy codiciado en Wall Street después de años de esfuerzo académico. Pero en esta valiente autobiografía, Arce revela el costo físico, económico y emocional del asombroso secreto que ella, al igual que muchos otros individuos en los Estados Unidos que logran mucho a pesar de sus circunstancias, se había visto obligada a ocultar no solo de sus jefes sino también de sus amigos más cercanos. Desde el momento en que sus padres la trajeron a este país cuando era una niña, Arce, la ganadora de una beca, la graduada universitaria con honores, la joven que finalmente llegó a ser vicepresidenta en Goldman Sachs, había vivido en secreto como inmigrante indocumentada. En esta historia personal desgarradora e...

Yearnings of the Heart

Autor: Isabella Tanikumi

Número de Páginas: 256

Leaving Tabasco

Autor: Carmen Boullosa

Número de Páginas: 244

Presents the magical coming-of-age story of Delmira, whose Mexican village is home to visions of her grandmother floating above her bed, stones turning into water, and her elderly serving woman's stigmata, but as Delmira reaches adulthood she makes a choice that forces her to leave home forever. Reprint.

For Me Daddy? ¿Para mí, Daddy?

Autor: Jose Useche

Número de Páginas: 56

Being born as a premature baby in Peru, Isabella, now ten years old, recalls with her dad and mom the ordeals they overcame together. In these pages, you can read for yourself how—by acting in faith and love and placing their trust in the care of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ—this family managed to bring their baby daughter back to New York City, where she now lives. As parents of premature babies can attest, we give our lives and very souls to these infants as soon as they are born and placed in urgent care. We watch and pray, hoping they will survive and grow up to be beautiful children. This book is a tribute to all the babies who come into this world, and from their very first breath, their battle to sustain life is before them. Read in these pages how the author travels to Peru various times and in each visit a new adventure in order to bring his precious daughter Isabella to NYC. Never losing faith that God would bring them through this test and eventually guide them home safe and sound...now you can read firsthand through the eyes of Isabella all the details and feelings that only a beautiful daughter can convey, and in thus doing enchant our lives. Como padres de...

Faith ando Love in Tibet

Autor: SILVIA GONZALEZ DELGADO

Número de Páginas: 200

Faith and love in Tibet is a novel of moral defiance, three Tibetan Buddhist monks face the pain of seeing their millennial culture fall, the Dalai Lama's escape and the prohibition of their religion by the Chinese communists. Samye, Shakya y Dusum have to choose between fulfilling his faith or to live the passions of his youth. “When I converted to Buddhism, I made many Tibetan friendship, some children who left Tibet with the Dalai, Lama; others, just a few years ago managed to evade the snipers of Lhasa City, they have some extraordinary experiences to tell, I decided to start with this one, said the author”.

Crestomatía Inglesa, Ó Sea, Selectas de Los Escritores Mas Eminentes de la Gran Bretaña, Asi en Prosa Como en Verso ... Con Análisis Gramatical Y Filológico, Al Principio Palabra Por Palabra, Y Mas Adelante en Las Construcciones Peculiares de la Lengua Inglesa Y Sus Idiotismos

Número de Páginas: 220

Te lo diré con una canción

Autor: Paula Pimenta

Número de Páginas: 352

Fani tiene 16 años y todavía no se ha enamorado de verdad. Pero el curso escolar le depara muchísimas sorpresas... ¿Quién dijo que ser una chica de dieciséis años fuera fácil? Si la vida de Fani fuera una película, probablemente sería una mezcla de comedia romántica, drama y ciencia ficción. Comedia romántica porque está enamorada de alguien que podría ser su príncipe azul (pero que tal vez nunca llegue a serlo); drama porque ese alguien es el joven profesor de biología (y eso complica bastante las cosas....). Y ciencia ficción porque si alguna vez lo invita al cine será el Día de San Nunca por la Tarde... Por si fuera poco, la película está ahora mismo en la parte más emocionante: ¿debe aceptar la propuesta de marcharse un año de intercambio o quedarse donde está? Dejar atrás a sus amigos del alma, a un amor imposible y su adorada colección de DVD cinco estrellas es tan difícil como renunciar a la que podría ser la aventura de su vida...

Mis colores, mi mundo

Autor: Maya Christina Gonzalez

Número de Páginas: 23

Maya, who lives in the dusty desert, opens her eyes wide to find the colors in her world, from Papi's black hair and Mami's orange and purple flowers to Maya's red swing set and the fiery pink sunset.

The Surreal Adventures of Dr. Mingus

Autor: Ricardo Felix Rodriguez

Número de Páginas: 340

The Surreal Adventures of Dr. Mingus (aka Las aventuras surreales de Dr. Mingus) is an adventure of the mind, inspired by Fellini, classical theatre, Dante, and the Mexican drug wars. The dreams of the eccentric doctor will carry readers from the chaos of the third world through the nightmare of middle class America. Félix Rodriguez has created a tapestry of modern life unlike anything you have ever read. This book contains both English and Spanish versions.

I Believed In Me

Autor: Ambrocio Magana

Número de Páginas: 164

I was born in a small town that at that time had about 300 inhabitants between children and adults ... I am a simple person, not very happy but not bitter. I am always willing to help those who need it; I do not wait for me to go begging, I offer help. I do not have much education I went to school for a short time. I finished sixth grade until I had 15 years old, but I remember that since I was young I liked to write stories, although I had never had the opportunity to publish them. I hope these stories reach your hearts and I also hope they like you. I want you enjoy them so much that you want to read them all... and other stories more. Remember that reading gives you education and culture. A part of these stories is true. A common occurrence for some people, whether by nature or custom, is to criticize or judge others and, often we do not realize that we make that person, or their family feel bad. Sometimes we can even physically or mentally harm them. Among the stories written here, one is true. It speaks of a little girl who has been criticized since her birth but has had the intelligence to turn criticism into positive energy. She has not stopped to listen to mediocre...

Con destino a Canadá, sin boleto de regreso

Autor: Rita Hernández Aburto

Número de Páginas: 240

Canadá, el verdadero norte. Con destino a Canadá sin boleto de regreso va más allá de los comunes relatos anecdóticos y personales de migración, la autora presenta un método de principio a fin para migrar a Canadá. Es una obra sustentada en investigaciones cualitativas y cuantitativas, para describir la transformadora experiencia de migración en el nivel personal, así como las implicaciones globales del fenómeno migratorio. Revela con singular praxis, los racionales de aceptación de inmigrantes por parte del aparato gubernamental canadiense. Este libro acompaña en todas las etapas de la experiencia migratoria: tomar la decisión, hacer un plan ejecutable para lograrlo, arribo y superación del choque cultural. El lector encontrará en este libro una perspectiva de largo plazo y lo que se necesita para «hacer una vida» en Canadá, ya que Incluye testimonios de inmigrantes hispanos con más de 20 años radicando legal y permanentemente en Canadá.

50 anos de Cine norteamericano

Número de Páginas: 1406

Unseen Worlds

Autor: Lorena Samano

Número de Páginas: 100

A beautiful girl named Scarlett was abandoned in a mysterious orphanage and suffers from a tragic ailment—her skin is ultrasensitive to light. She spends much of her childhood indoors at the ancient castle, even as she longs to go outside to play with her friends. Born with a unique gift that allows her to see what others cannot, her eyes open to the supernatural. She experiences visions of angels, shadowy demons, and other mysterious beings hidden from those around her. Living in the castle, she notices strange figures, weird, monstrously shaped shadows, and disembodied voices, but she also sees enchanting things that makes her forget the shadows. Along the way, Scarlett witnesses many battles between the forces of good and evil. Though she is tempted by darkness along the way, her pure heart always brings her back from the brink of losing her soul. She tries to unravel the mystery of the noble family that lived many years ago in the castle and the secrets they hold. As time passes, Scarlett discovers that her gift is not only to view the supernatural. It is more powerful than she imagines, but her true desire is to someday be a part of a family that loves her. Does she really...

Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos

Autor: Carlos Montemayor

Número de Páginas: 304

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Three contains plays by six Mexican indigenous writers. Their plays appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that introduce the work of each playwright and discuss the...

Bilingual Short Stories Based on Reality and Dreams

Autor: Mayela Acuña Rojas - Hess

Número de Páginas: 60

A veces vivimos momentos difíciles en nuestras vidas. Otras veces nos reímos de las circunstancias que se nos presentan. Y todos buscamos las respuestas al sentido de nuestra vida y quizás muchas de ellas las encontramos en nuestros sueños. Estos tres cuentos cuentos nos hablan de esos momentos que hemos vivido de una u otra forma. Sufrimos, nos reímos y soñamos. Sometimes we live through difficult times in our lives. Other times we laugh at the circumstances before us. And we all seek the answers to the meaning of our lives and perhaps many of them we find in our dreams. These three short stories tell us about those moments we've experienced in one way or another. We suffer, laugh and dream.

Under the light of my stars

Autor: Antonia Garcia

Número de Páginas: 110

This book has family stories that date back from 1875 to the present. Stories that took place at the rancherías (rural settlements) in the region of los Altos de Jalisco, Mexico, during and after the Cristero revolution. It recounts the ways of living, celebrations, and disciplines passed on from one generation to the next. The experiences of immigrant people and the challenges and opportunities they encounter in the United States. It talks about the pain families experience when they lose a loved one in another country and cannot physically be by their side. This book depicts the story of an unexpected accident and what happens in the "unconscious" mind of a dying person. It talks about how some human beings see life and death. There are testimonies of people who had dared to dream and achieve their dreams. A large family learned to heal the wounds from their past and it shares how they live after accomplishing their emotional healing.

Prietita Y la Llorona

Autor: Gloria Anzaldúa

Número de Páginas: 32

Prietita, a young Mexican American girl, becomes lost in her search for an herb to cure her mother and is aided by the legendary ghost woman.

Rose Without Thorns in Woollahra Cold House

Autor: Olgaska

Número de Páginas: 330

Que día tan maravilloso para poder contar de lo que pasó en esos instántes o momentos que pasé todos los días por más de 2 años que viví allí, afuera, muy hermoso lleno de plantas, flores, pasto verdes, más un lindo sol aun cuando llovía era maravilloso para poder escribir ciertas anécdotas de lo que pasó todas esas estadías que viví en esa casa fría, primeramente decir, vivir con dos damas, una era de 97 años de edad, antes la había conocido en 1983. Y la otra dama era de 55 años, era su cocinera que le veía a ella por muchos años, (poco lesbiana) las dos damas eran suficientes maltratadas por la flagelación del tiempo, tomaban pastillas todo los días, la señora de 97 años tenía artritis en sus pies, sus huesos se habían crecido, era un fastidio y dolor, también sus dientes postizos no los habían hecho bien y ella sufría cada vez que comía, esta dama de 97 años había vendido su casa por varios millones a mi amigo que era mi enamorado, una noticia por mis familiares Lucho y Julia, ellos me pasaron la voz diciendo que yo me iría a vivir a mi casa en Woollahara, ese fue el motivo más exquisito para mi de irme a una casa grande, porque yo estuve...

Llamas En El Portal

Autor: Dr. Bonnie Rae

Número de Páginas: 104

Este libro ha sido inspirado por una enriquecida vida y, durante la incubación de Coronavirus y encierre 2020, ha permitido su expresión. Desde hace años la autora ha escrito en su diario personal y empezó a escribir su “historia” durante su residencia en Omán, Medio Oriente. La intención desde esa entonces fue la de llevarla a un fin. Sin embargo, a medida que el tiempo ha marchado y ha puesto en el camino una cantidad de tiempo desperdiciado, fuera de cuidar la salud y vivir sin ningún propósito, los temas originales que han iluminado su vida no pueden seguir callados. La energía, la fuerza, la alegría de las palabras danzando por doquier en estas páginas han sido una salvación para la Dra. Rae y un obsequio con profunda gratitud y amor para usted, el lector.

Money, For What?

Autor: Rafael Fellové

Número de Páginas: 70

When there is money, everything can be done and bought. However, certain things cannot be bought because their value is not material. In life, there are sometimes many situations that hurt and are easy to heal since they take a long time to accept them as they are. Because I think they are never forgotten since they are very deep and indelible scars.

La Morenita

Autor: Guadalupe Cordoba

Número de Páginas: 148

Success-it's something everyone hopes for but few have the fortitude and endurance necessary to achieve it, especially when confronted by one adversity after another. Lupe Cordoba knows that hard work and determination are the traits necessary to achieve success, and she used these strong personal qualities to rise to her position as a nationally acclaimed restaurateur. Cordoba seemed to encounter nothing but hardships and obstacles throughout her life, and in La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba, she candidly illustrates how her life developed from an idyllic childhood in a small Mexican town to the collapse of her marriage after succeeding in reaching America with her three small children. Perseverance and clever thinking carried Cordoba from the plight of sleeping in her car to opening her first restaurant to preparing hors d'oeuvres for a party for President Clinton. While conveying her talent for balancing romance, motherhood, and business in her life, Cordoba offers frank advice for others in her position and presents intimate portraits of her family and friends and the lives they endured to reach their current plateau. La Morenita delivers the compelling story of one...

Fuego en el 23

Autor: Enrique Solla

Número de Páginas: 555

POR FIN LLEGA LA NOVELA NEGRA CON RITMO Y SABOR Durante la guerra fría, tres científicos rusos experimentan en Cuba con un poderosísimo fármaco psicotrópico y la misteriosa santería afrocubana. Años después, en Madrid, abril de 2011, un espantoso e inexplicable incendio devora la discoteca latina “El 23”. Todos los presentes mueren calcinados sin poder parar de bailar salsa y sin intentar escapar. ¿Todos? ¡No! Isaura, una jovencísima negra bailarina de ballet sobrevive y es, a partir de ese instante, una peligrosa testigo. Su encuentro con Alex “PéBé”, el encantador héroe callejero y bailarín de hip hop, desemboca en una trepidante aventura de persecuciones, luchas, amores con historias paralelas en tiempos distintos que se entrecruzan y se dan sentido. Científicos rusos, brujería cubana, magia y tecnología crean el trasfondo malvado que mueve los hilos de esta apasionante novela negra, que también es de amor… AZÚCAR NEGRA es una serie de novelas escritas por Enrique Solla de la que esta es su primera entrega. Acción, misterio, asesinato, investigación policíaca… al más puro estilo de las series americanas (Fringe, Héroes, Dexter…)

UN DIARIO DEL CORAZON

Autor: Jorge Avalos

Número de Páginas: 152

He tenido la fortuna de leer los poemas que ha escrito mi muy buen amigo Jorge y puedo asegurar que han tocado lo más profundo de mi corazón, pues tienen esa sensibilidad que nos hace falta en estos tiempos. Gracias amigo que por medio de tus poemas te conocemos más a ti. Yolanda Castelazo Como un baúl con los más valiosos recuerdos, como un cofre con el más grande tesoro escondido, esta valiosa recopilación de poemas tiene el propósito de compartir vivencias y momentos únicos. Al momento de leer estos poemas se palpa el sentimiento y la emoción; la mente puede trasladarse a estos momentos y vivir junto con el autor cada experiencia descrita en el. Mi querido amigo Jorge Avalos tiene el don de poder plasmar y dar forma a los poemas sin dejar a un lado el hecho de que cada poema es una vivencia real, que es lo que realmente le da vida. En este libro, el autor ha depositado parte de su vida e invita a cada lector a ser parte de ella. Mireida Aguilar

Dreamers Interpretation Dictionary

Autor: Knowledge Treasure Collection

Número de Páginas: 618

Symbols are the language of dreams. A symbol can invoke a feeling or an idea and often has a much more profound and deeper meaning than any one word can convey. At the same time, these symbols can leave you confused and wondering what that dream was all about. Acquiring the ability to interpret your dreams is a powerful tool. In analyzing your dreams, you can learn about your deep secrets and hidden feelings. Remember that no one is a better expert at interpreting your dreams than yourself.

Discurso Literario

House of Houses

Autor: Pat Mora

Número de Páginas: 298

Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat MoraÕs House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand. ÒPoet MoraÕs complex and dramatic family history comprises more than personal reminiscences: it also embraces resonant aspects of Mexican American history. Mora recounts her familyÕs traumatic exodus from Mexico to escape the violence of Pancho Villa and his forces and their struggles to begin new lives in another country. To anchor her psychologically rich, dramatic, sometimes funny, often touching multigenerational tale, Mora uses the image of a houseÑthe house of housesÑduring a single year, a fruitful metaphor that allows her to dwell on the bright ...

El Amor que Calla - The Silent Love

Autor: Julie Pujol Karel

Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain

Autor: Elias L. Rivers

Número de Páginas: 351

In Spanish. This volume, while including many of the usual anthology pieces from Spanish poetry, provides a sampling of the major genres of poetry associated with Spains older literary traditions, omitting only the classical epic. In addition to English prose translations, this collection also includes a seventeen-page introduction intended to define the genres and to indicate briefly the lines along which they developed. Includes selections from these poets of the Renaissance: Juan Boscn, Cristbal de Castillejo, Garcilaso de la Vega, Gutierre de Cetina, Francisco de la Torre, Hernando de Acua, Fray Luis de Len, Baltasar del Alczar, Fernando de Herrera, Francisco de Aldana, and San Juan de la Cruz. Includes selections from these Baroque poets: Lupercio & Bartolom L. de Argensola, Luis de Gngora, Lope de Vega, Juan de Arguijo, Francisco de Medrano, Rodrigo Caro, Andrs Fernndez de Andrada, Pedro Espinosa, Francisco de Quevedo, Francisco de Rioja, Esteban Manuel de Villegas, and Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz.

Believe: My Daily Inspirational Journal

Autor: A.G. Shraud

Número de Páginas: 215

“It is an honor and a privilege to share with the whole world my life story of adversities, happiness, and accomplishments. Despite all the challenges and tribulations I have had in my life, I have discovered the true meaning of hope, faith, perseverance, love, strength, passion, and confidence. I believe in myself. I have also learned never to give up and to pursue my goals and dreams regardless of my circumstances. I believe that there are millions of people who are going through challenges similar to or worse than mine right now. I cannot keep my life a secret inside my heart. I know that by sharing the trials I have had, my journey can have an impact on others’ lives. I believe that reading about my struggles may help others to become stronger.”

Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México

Autor: Carlos Montemayor , Donald Frischmann

Número de Páginas: 304

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume Three contains plays by six Mexican indigenous writers. Their plays appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Montemayor and Frischmann have abundantly annotated the Spanish, English, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that introduce the work of each playwright and discuss the...

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Autor: Karla Galván Duque Senosiain

Número de Páginas: 121

“The sky is the limit” is a little treasure. It’s not just a book on autism or on someone’s particular and extraordinary life experience, it’s also revealing and paradigmatic. Revealing because it helps us as human beings to understand that an advanced society must be committed and inclusive; whatever our circumstance, we are all people and at the same time we are all unique. Paradigmatic because I have never met anyone with such a determination to do her part in helping parents, families, therapists, and anyone willing to learn more about the way these children understand their particular world, which is our own as well. Karla is a woman who has given her life great value; she is a fighter that turns obstacles into great opportunities to grow and to love; this makes “The sky is the limit” a book about love, perseverance, strength, energy, self-motivation, optimism… and, why not say it as well, it’s a Coaching book, a totally 21st-century book!”

Constructing selves: Issues in Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Nation

Autor: Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo , Ángel Mateos-Aparicio

Número de Páginas: 346

The notion of self has become crucial for contemporary cultural studies in its examination identities. Identities are often conceptualized as an engagement of the individual’s self—their condition of being a person—with broader cul-tural cons tructs. However, in addition to being culturally situated, the constitution of selves may be conceived of through identity-construction phenomena whereby individuals’ subjectivities take up, or resist, the subject posi-tions made available in discursive practices. Selves—the notion of ‘Who and I?’—may only be understood as resulting from power-based discourses and cultural practices. In this respect, the idea of the self could be best made sense of in the broader context of the circuits of cul-ture where identities are conformed together with other key cultural processes including representation and cul-tural production, consumption and regulation. The chapters in this collection explore the relations of selves with a wide range of cultural products (e.g. mass media, poetry, fiction, film, painting, advertising, the Internet, education, the institutional, etc.) across a multiplicity of social, political, geographical and...

Revolution

Autor: Shemar Frazier

Número de Páginas: 479

In a post-apocalyptic earth, a group of teenagers are forced to embark on a dangerous quest, upon witnessing a world-changing event in their first mission outside the kingdom Olympus. They quickly learn that this occurrence is capable of ending The Age of Zombies, however, their oppressors soon obtain news of this incident as well. These teens must combat the undead army, the world government's elite enforcers, bandits searching for easy targets, and most deadly of all, each other in their perilous adventure for safety and answers around The New World!

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands

Autor: Nellie Campobello

Número de Páginas: 144

Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho Villa was a popular hero and a personal friend of her family, show not only the stark realism of Cartucho but also the tender lyricism of My Mother's Hands. They are noteworthy, too, as a first-person account of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.

La Estética de la transgresión

Autor: Antonio Ballesteros González , Cécile Vilvandre de Sousa

Número de Páginas: 509

Los artículos que componen el presente volumen, fruto de las Jornadas Internacionales del mismo título, se centran en el estudio y discusión de algunas de las formas teatrales que podrían ubicarse bajo el polisémico epígrafe de teatro de vanguardia, y suponen un acercamiento crítico a la complejidad de las vertientes dramáticas contemporáneas. El libro se estructura en diferentes apartados, que van desde las reflexiones teóricas de índole global o general, o acerca de la coexistencia de lo teatral con otras facetas artísticas, para pasar a incidir más adelante sobre la escena vanguardista en diferentes ámbitos, principalmente en los países de lengua española, francesa e inglesa. En definitiva, la obra viene a demostrar la riqueza y la versatilidad referencial que la experimentación de las vanguardias ha insuflado al Arte de Talía en el siglo XX, manifestando así que el teatro es un fenómeno vivo y dinámico, y por lo tanto, proteico. Que se alce, pues, el telón, para dejar paso a las disquisiciones teatrales que aquí se contienen, con la certeza shakespeareana de que el mundo es un escenario.